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The Big Over Easy (Nursery Crime, #1)
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Jasper Fforde is just so much fun. His books are sorta like beach reads for book nerds. They're playful, punny, funny, silly, and smart. Also I saw him read in a small bookstore in SoHo a couple of years ago and he is hilarious. He talked about how he and his kids play games in supermarkets where they put really incongruous and semi-embarrasing things in other people's shopping carts (I think he called them 'trolleys' because of course he British or maybe Austrailian?), like adult diapers for young pretty girls or whatever.
Anyway, the Thursday Next books are in my opinion much better than this series, but that won't stop me from reading everything he writes. Jasper, please be my friend?
Anyway, the Thursday Next books are in my opinion much better than this series, but that won't stop me from reading everything he writes. Jasper, please be my friend?
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Oct 01, 2007 06:08AM
I'm reading The Fourth Bear, and so far it is hilarious. I think I'll go back after this and start with his first and read them all.
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Awesome, I adore Jasper Fforde. Have you read any of the Thursday Next books? They're fantastic & so, so clever. I saw him do a reading a couple of years ago, and he is just as hilarious as his writing.
I didn't want to add these to my To-Read shelf, but your review made me do it.
Aww, cool! But you should start with the Thursday Next series, because they are fantastic.
Your recommendation is my impulse.
I actually think these are far more fun than the Thursday Next books; I enjoy those too, but the amount of entertainment I derive from the serious police investigation (with stronger characters) of fairy-tale death is just more fun for me than the idea of Miss Havisham, secret agent, or people messing about with Jane Eyre. Although those too are fun, but more in an action-thriller way.Actually I meant to comment to say I think the "beach reads for book nerds" line is perfect and I laughed when I read it.
As an aside, if you like the concept behind this book (fairy tale/fable/mythological/etc characters living in a sort of low-profile enclave within regular society) then you might enjoy Fables, a comic book series about same. It's very serious and yet really awesome and fun. Often with nice art as well. Some of the main characters include King Cole (the Mayor), Snow White (deputy mayor), Bigby Wolf ("Big B", the detective) and so on. Cinderella and Boy Blue are espionage agents. Set in NYC. Give it a try if you're bored!
Thanks Ka! I think I like the literary wonkiness of the Thursday Next books, but I'll read absolutely anything Jasper Fforde puts in my hands. Though I will say that I was not as enamored with Shades of Grey as with the others -- seemed too overly ambitious and far too quirky-for-the-sake-of-quirky.I'm in a graphic novel book club and we actually read the first two volumes of Fables about six months ago. Perhaps I didn't read enough to give it a fair chance, but I wasn't that thrilled by them. I love the concept, but the plots of the books felt very surface and not too exciting or original to me. I'd probably read more though, eventually.
